[privacy] U.S. Lawmakers: Two Other VA Data Breaches

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Holy smokes.

Via InfoWorld.

[snip]

U.S. lawmakers said Thursday they have learned of two more data
breaches at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) even as the
agency announced that law enforcement agencies had recovered stolen
computer hardware containing the personal information of millions of
U.S. military veterans.

The House of Representatives Veterans Affairs Committee has learned of
a May 5 incident in which a data tape disappeared from a VA facility in
Indianapolis, Indiana, and a 2005 incident in which a VA laptop was
stored in the trunk of a car that was stolen in Minneapolis, Minnesota,
said Representative Steve Buyer, chairman of the committee.

Also on Thursday, Pedro Cadenas Jr., the VA's chief information
security officer (CISO), submitted his resignation. Cadenas, at the VA
since 2002, had also served as acting deputy chief information officer
(CIO) at the VA in recent months.

[snip]

More here:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/06/29/HNmorevadata_1.html

- ferg


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